user: Chet Gray
[waltz]
[break]
[waltz]
by: Julian Blechner
introduces moves: custom, turn alone, allemande, do si do, swing, promenade
formation: circle mixer
| A1 | 8 | ladles to the center and back
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| 2 | gentlespoons to the center
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| 4 | gentlespoons turn alone
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| 2 | gentlespoons go back
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| A2 | 8 | partners allemande left 1½ (gentlespoons progress CCW, ladles progress CW) ⁋
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| 8 | next neighbors do si do once (now your partner)
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| B1 | 16 | partners balance & swing
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| B2 | 16 | partners promenade along the set on the right
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by: Larry Jennings
introduces moves: down the hall, up the hall, circle, chain, long lines
formation: improper
| A1 | 16 | neighbors balance & swing, end facing down the hall
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| A2 | 8 | down the hall and turn as a couple
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| 8 | up the hall and bend into a ring
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| B1 | 8 | circle left 3 places
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| 8 | partners swing
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| B2 | 8 | ladles chain
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| 8 | long lines forward & back - ID next neighbors ⁋
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by: Cary Ravitz
introduces moves: petronella
formation: Becket ccw
| A1 | 8 | circle left 3 places
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| 8 | neighbors swing
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| A2 | 8 | long lines forward & back
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| 8 | ladles chain
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| B1 | 8 | balance & petronella and turn to face the next ⁋
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| 8 | balance & petronella
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| B2 | 16 | partners balance & swing
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by: Will Mentor
introduces moves: see saw, give & take, zig zag
formation: improper
| A1 | 8 | circle right 4 places
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| 8 | neighbors see saw once
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| A2 | 16 | neighbors balance & swing
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| B1 | 8 | ladles give & take partners
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| 8 | partners swing
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| B2 | 10 | circle left 5 places zoomily
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| 6 | zig left zag right ⁋
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Transcribed from memory, please test before calling for dancers.
by: Gene Hubert
introduces moves: custom, right left through, pass through, balance
formation: square dance
| A1 | 8 | Heads forward & back
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| 8 | right left through Heads
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| A2 | 6 | circle left 3 places Heads
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| 2 | pass through to face Sides
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| 8 | neighbors do si do 1¼ to a wave of 4 (2 ladles in the middle by the left, neighbor right)
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| B1 | 4 | balance right & left
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| 2 | neighbors allemande right ½
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| 2 | gentlespoons allemande left ½
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| 8 | partners swing
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| B2 | 16 | partners promenade along the set on the right to home
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by: Chris Page
formation: square dance
| A1 | 8 | balance & petronella
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| 8 | neighbors swing (CORNER)
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| A2 | 8 | balance & petronella
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| 8 | next neighbors swing (NEXT CORNER)
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| B1 | 8 | balance & petronella
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| 8 | next neighbors swing (NEXT NEXT CORNER)
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| B2 | 8 | balance & petronella
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| 8 | partners swing
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http://chrispagecontra.awardspace.us/dances/#petronella-swing-break
As long as they know petronella turns and who their corner is, they're set to go. If they're aware of the concept that a corner is a place rather than a face, then there's no need to walk through any of this.
This is a quick way to swing everyone. gentlespoons go nowhere, ladles go around the square.
by: Heiner Fischle
formation: improper
| A1 | 8 | neighbors do si do once
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| 8 | neighbors swing
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| A2 | 8 | long lines forward & back
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| 8 | circle left 3 places
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| B1 | 8 | partners do si do once
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| 8 | partners swing
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| B2 | 8 | long lines forward & back
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| 6 | circle left 3 places
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| 2 | pass through ⁋
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by: unknown
formation: improper
| A1 | 8 | neighbors allemande right 1½
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| 8 | gentlespoons allemande left 1½
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| A2 | 8 | partners do si do once
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| 8 | partners swing
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| B1 | 8 | down the hall and turn as a couple
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| 8 | up the hall and bend into a ring
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| B2 | 8 | right left through
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| 6 | circle left 3 places
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| 2 | pass through ⁋
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[waltz]
[break]
by: Ted Sannella and Larry Jennings
introduces moves: pull by dancers
formation: Becket
In opening circle you are with the couple on your left diagonal.
| A1 | 8 | circle left 4 places with couple on your left diagonal ⁋
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| 8 | 1st neighbors do si do once
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| A2 | 2 | 1st neighbors pull by right
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| 2 | 2nd neighbors pull by left
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| 2 | 3rd neighbors pull by right
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| 6 | 4th neighbors allemande left once
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| 2 | 3rd neighbors pull by right
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| 2 | 2nd neighbors pull by left
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| B1 | 16 | 1st neighbors balance & swing
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| B2 | 8 | gentlespoons give & take partners to gentlespoon's home side
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| 8 | partners swing
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Notes from Bob Isaacs: In this crossing of two New England greats, Larry improves a dance written in
his honor by adding the give and take.
The very long and good neighbor sequence is allemande left-pull
by right-pull by right-pull by left-pull by left-circle-do si do-pull by right-balance-swing-give and take.
Source: Give and Take, by Larry Jennings.
by: Gene Hubert
introduces moves: box the gnat, star
formation: improper
| A1 | 4 | neighbors box the gnat
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| 4 | gentlespoons pull by left
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| 8 | partners swing
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| A2 | 8 | circle left 4 places
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| 8 | partners do si do once
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| B1 | 4 | partners box the gnat
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| 4 | ladles pull by left
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| 8 | neighbors swing
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| B2 | 8 | right left through
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| 8 | star left 4 places ⁋
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by: Robert Cromartie
formation: improper
| A1 | 8 | neighbors see saw once
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| 8 | neighbors allemande left 1½
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| A2 | 16 | ladles balance & swing in the center, end by partners
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| B1 | 16 | partners balance & swing
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| B2 | 8 | long lines forward & back
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| 6 | circle left 3 places
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| 2 | pass through ⁋
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| 8 | neighbors do si do once
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| 8 | neighbors allemande right 1½
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| 16 | gentlespoons balance & swing in the center, end by partners
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| 16 | partners balance & swing
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| 8 | right left through
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| 6 | circle left 3 places
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| 2 | pass through ⁋
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Written and first called on Sunday, September 5, 1993, the last day of the first annual Harvest Moon Festival, put on by the Greenville, SC contra dance group. Intended to be done as a medley. I usually start with an unrelated dance, then change to Moon Dance, then after a few times do Sun Dance, and finally alternate between the two. I know of callers who walk through both dances, then alternate between them throughout. I like the surprise factor. Callers: watch out for the beginning of the B2 -- the dances are different.
[waltz]
by: Nathaniel Jack
introduces moves: form an ocean wave, Rory O'More
formation: improper
| A1 | 16 | neighbors balance & swing
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| A2 | 8 | pass through to an ocean wave & balance - ladles by left in the center, neighbors by right on the sides
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| 4 | Rory O'More right, gentlespoons continue past each other, but catch left hands
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| 8 | gentlespoons allemande left once
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| 16 | partners balance & swing
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| 8 | ladles allemande right 1½
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| 8 | neighbors allemande left 1¾ to next neighbors ⁋
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http://lists.sharedweight.net/pipermail/callers-sharedweight.net/2009-August/002149.html
Who doesn't like pirates? Not me. This dance was meant to be as raucous as I could make it, filled with stomping, spinning and swinging. It's fun.